From A Railway Carriage By Robert Louis Stevenson - Ghizela Rowe

From a Railway Carriage

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Faster than fairies

Faster than witches

Bridges and houses

Hedges and ditches

And charging along

Like troops in a battle

All through the meadows

The horses and cattle

All of the sights of the hill

And the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain

And ever again in the wink of an eye

Painted stations whistle by

Here is a child

Who clambers and scrambles

All by himself and gathering brambles

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes

And here is the green

For stringing the daisies

Here is a cart runaway in the road

Lumping along with man and load

And here is a mill and there is a river

Each a glimpse and gone forever